well, i tried the way that freezing talks about on the blog, and i get the same error as when the UartSB is attached.
on a side note, i touched up the solder on all the IC’s and the other components as well as the legs of where the LED matrix plugs in, and now it stays solid. it looks like it has a refresh rate that is just a few cycles faster than what the human eye can see, but they are all on none the less. no bars yet anyway.
now going to play with a new sketch to make it do something else. just to make sure its responding.
anyone else get
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x51
when they upload to it?